Bloomsbury acquires Artfilms video streaming service

Bloomsbury has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Artfilms, the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media, as it expands its digital resources portfolio. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 17:59:05 UTC ]
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Can a Video Game Express Modernist Values?

AS AN EXPRESSIVE MEDIUM, video games have a strange way of reducing central concepts of modernist art and theory to basic operational elements. The technical specifications of “point of view” that have preoccupied novelists since the turn of the 20th century are crudely literalized within game... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-31 17:00:02 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury bags 'urgent' non-fiction title from economist Blakeley

Bloombury is to publish the first major work by 27-year-old economist Grace Blakeley, after winning a 10-way auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 18:38:16 UTC ]
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Navigate360, a security-services company, buys Social Sentinel, a threat-detection company

Social Sentinel technology scans and analyzes digital content to identify potential safety and security threats, according to Richfield-based Navigate360. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-10-27 16:39:45 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to publish companion to Natural History Museum's Fantastic Beasts exhibition

Bloomsbury is to publish the "definitive" companion book to accompany the Natural History Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature", in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pottermore Publishing will publish the e-book.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 15:33:33 UTC ]
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Muswell Press acquires Amsinck's 'beautifully constructed, propulsive' thriller

Muswell Press has acquired world rights for My Name is Jensen by BBC Radio 4 short story writer Heidi Amsinck, for publication in August 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 06:05:04 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Posts Double-Digit Gains in First Half of Fiscal 2021

A 55% increase in digital sales plus higher online revenue led to a 10% increase in sales while pre-tax profits more than doubled at Bloomsbury in the six-month period ended August 31, 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Online sales push Bloomsbury to best first-half since 2008

Bloomsbury Publishing has delivered its highest first half earnings since 2008, as "signficantly higher” online book sales and e-book revenues led to year-on-year profit growth of 60% to £4m in the six months ended 31st August 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 15:50:49 UTC ]
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Aria acquires three from Eimear Lawlor

Aria Fiction, an imprint of Head of Zeus, has acquired world English rights to three books by Eimear Lawlor from Kate Nash at The Kate Nash Agency.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-23 03:26:59 UTC ]
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White Rabbit acquires joint memoir from Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi

Lee Brackstone, publisher at White Rabbit, has acquired world all-language rights for Medical Grade Music directly from authors Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 10:33:59 UTC ]
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Orion Spring acquires Glazebrook's 'reassuring' guide for dog owners

Orion Spring has acquired a "warm, witty and practical" guide for dog owners from dog behaviourist and trainer Louise Glazebrook. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 18:21:47 UTC ]
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HQ acquires debut from Primadonna Prize winner

HQ will publish the debut novel Ginger and Me from Elissa Soave, who won the inaugural Primadonna Prize in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-19 12:13:54 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins auction for Buoro's 'astonishing' debut

Bloomsbury has secured 27-year-old novelist and mathematician Stephen Buoro's debut novel, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 13:01:22 UTC ]
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Welbeck acquires Michelle Elman's Joy of Being Selfish

Welbeck is to publish Michelle Elman's latest self-help guide, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-15 00:14:50 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury lands Luke Cassidy's 'gritty' debut novel

Bloomsbury is to publish Iron Annie by debut author Luke Cassidy, secured in a two-book deal.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-13 22:22:54 UTC ]
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Library lockdown success could threaten physical services, leaders warn

Heads of library services fear the success of digital and remote lending during lockdown could threaten their physical facilities, with the potential for “brutal” cuts on the way, according to a new report. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-12 13:22:14 UTC ]
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Yellow Kite acquires 'revolutionary' plant-based cookbook

Yellow Kite will publish The Plant-Based Diet Revolution: 28 days to a Healthier Gut and a Happier You by consultant gastroenterologist Dr Alan Desmond (pictured) and chef Bob Andrew. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-09 10:26:04 UTC ]
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Cassava Republic acquires Omotoso's 'bold, unflinching' tale

Cassava Republic Press has acquired An Unusual Grief, Yewande Omotoso's third novel.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-09 08:59:05 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins Joe Biden biography

Bloomsbury is to publish a biography of US presidential candidate Joe Biden by Evan Osnos later this month.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 21:38:55 UTC ]
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Aria acquires three from Suzanne Fortin

Head of Zeus imprint Aria will publish three novels from Suzanne Fortin, with The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger to be released on 4th March 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-06 11:37:28 UTC ]
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